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BASKETBALL
Sep 8, 2007

Sparks re-signs with Takamatsu

Point guard Rasheed Sparks has re-signed with the Takamatsu Five Arrows, the bj-league announced on Friday. The 29-year-old Sparks, who led the league in assists (4.7 per game) and steals (2.4) last season, played an instrumental role in helping the team reach the league's championship game as a first-year...
COMMENTARY
Sep 8, 2007

ASEAN at 40: coming of age?

KUALA LUMPUR — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations turned 40 this summer. Is it facing a mid-life crisis? Or is it on the verge of maturing into a more cohesive, more relevant organization capable of promoting peace and stability not only in Southeast Asia but beyond, given its self-proclaimed...
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2007

Japan should speed up nuclear ties with India: think tank

Japan should explore the possibility of expediting cooperation with India on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, despite their different approaches to achieving the abolishment of atomic weapons, a Tokyo-based think tank proposed Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 8, 2007

Japanese-English holds key to Japan

I sleep with a purple hippo, a cow, and a dog. And now, Japan is finally making sense to me. For years this country had eluded me with its cute characters and mascots made to resemble animal-like something or others, and creative blobs with eyes and fuzzy ears representing new species of thingamajigs....
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2007

More class hours not the answer

The Central Education Council, an advisory body for the education minister, has proposed increasing class hours by about 10 percent for key subjects like Japanese, arithmetic, math, science, social studies and gym at elementary and middle schools. As for electives and the so-called integrated-study classes...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 8, 2007

Lilian Mendes Kano

"Despite our big, multilayered, newcomer community in Japan, the truth is that not much is known here about the variety and richness of Brazilian culture and society. It is really rewarding for me to show aspects of my home country, beyond carnival, soccer and the Amazon, that people have never imagined."...
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2007

Abe & Co. stumbling toward a Diet showdown

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's political future hinges on how he manages the extraordinary Diet session that starts Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2007

GE delays auction of lender Lake

General Electric Co., the world's second-largest company by market value, has delayed an auction of its Japanese consumer lending unit Lake, it was learned Friday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2007

Pension system suffers another blow

The Social Insurance Agency's investigation into pension-related frauds has found that pension premiums and benefits and other funds have been embezzled by municipal and agency workers in 99 cases, totaling more than ¥340 million. This new revelation undermines the people's trust in the nation's pension...
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2007

Suntory, PepsiCo in coffee tieup

Suntory Ltd. said Friday it has agreed to tie up with PepsiCo Inc. to sell canned coffee in Southeast Asia.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 8, 2007

Flying high from where the airlines left off

For all his carefully considered — if not weightily measured — words, Geoffrey Tudor's inner child is never far away. It twinkles at the corners of his eyes, twitches the corners of his mouth, and often convulses his body in mischievous laughter.
BASKETBALL
Sep 7, 2007

bj-league adds two more teams

The OSG Phoenix and Shiga LakeStars will join the bj-league as expansion teams for the 2008-09 season, the league announced Wednesday. The league started with six teams for the 2005-06 season and added two new teams (the Toyama Grouses and Takamatsu Five Arrows) to the fold last season. In the upcoming...
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 7, 2007

Ferguson: Beckham alone can't transform MLS

LONDON (AP) David Beckham will find his latest mission of transforming soccer in America more difficult than expected, according to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2007

New chief for U.S. Forces Japan

U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Maj. Gen. Edward Rice, Jr. to become the next U.S. Forces Japan commander, to replace Lt. Gen. Bruce Wright, the U.S. forces announced Thursday.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
Onosato stumbles in quest for first perfect championship
Yoshinofuji (left) beats Onosato by <i>oshidashi</i> at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.
Economic security minister stresses crackdown on rule-breaking foreign nationals
Economic security minister Kimi Onoda speaks during a group interview in Tokyo on Monday.
How Band-Maid brought anime energy into the hard-rock sound of ‘Scooooop’
Members of Band-Maid combine heavy riffs and maid-inspired visuals in their latest project, "Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty."

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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